What to do with a Screamer?

[sahm1225]

Dcg is almost 1 and screams all day. If I put her in a high chair for meals, she screams because she doesn't have food, or because her neighbor baby has better food, or because she threw her cup again.
If she's playing, she's screaming because the older kids won't let her snatch the toys from them.

She's a happy baby.... When she's not screaming. It's not like she is crying, she is just screaming. Dcm thinks it SO cute and screams back at her in a cutesy way. Her brother 5 (sa) laughs when she screams.

How do I fix this? I have yet another headache today

[Baby Beluga]

My own daughter was like that at this age. She would just scream to scream and it was a happy scream. I was so embarrassing when out in public. I just kept explaining to her that it's not okay, we use our inside voice and when she screamed I would cover my ears and tell her owe. Once she learned how to communicate with words more the screaming slowly stopped.

I hope someone has a better answer or suggestion for you!

I would have a talk with mom though and explain that her daughter thinks it's okay to scream but it is upsetting the other children (even it if isn't) I'd also explain to mom that screaming back to her daughter is encouraging her and it needs to stop.

[Heidi]

Try teaching her shhhhhhh.......

One of mine here liked to scream, too. Every time he did, I'd show him "shh....", and he did that, instead for a while, then outgrew it, thankfully!

[Unregistered]

Screamer

Ok so a screamer is usually a high spirited type of child. More extroverted, easy going and happy as you describe. They usually are one of the easiest children to help with behavior guidance and need to scream. Yes, I said it they need to scream. So throughout the day I have to teach them the tone they are at by talking to them calm but loud and then bring my tone down to a normal level and have them practice all throughout the day right when they are usually in there highchair or quarreling about something.

Then when they have had enough of using a normal tone and have to get there scream on, I tell them where it is ok to do so because the screaming is hurting my ears. So they go in a room and do it farther away from me and it does not bug me as bad. By then I am usually giggling because it is kind of funny and cute to see them trot off all giddy because they get to scream.

Hope this helps. I literally have scream breaks for them and have to go over the tone thing over and over again.

It is ok to have a high spirited one.......

I have to teach them all the other ways to handle there problems besides screaming too.